Cook County Opinion
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Next big crisis will be credit card debtSep 17, 2007 11:00 pm - With the mortgage crisis still with us, the next big mess is coming. It is the other shoe dropping -- the credit card mess -- and it will be a big shoe. American credit...
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With cemetery just a graveyard, O'Hare expansion soarsSep 16, 2007 11:00 pm - Maybe by osmosis, Monsieur Richard Daley learned some new executive tricks during his most recent European trip. It was paid for by a management consulting firm … althou...
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Protection comes at too high a priceSep 16, 2007 11:00 pm - Protection comes at too high a price To the editor: Palatine has recently announced it will install traffic cameras in 10 intersections. Here we go as the village is aga...
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Big effort made BG Days greatSep 16, 2007 11:00 pm - To the editor: We would like to thank the companies who participated Labor Day weekend in Buffalo Grove Days 2007. Their donations of products, food and gifts, as well a...
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U.S. welcomes legal immigrantsSep 16, 2007 11:00 pm - It's about time that illegal immigrant Elvira Arellano, who hid in a Chicago church for a year, finally got arrested and deported. She is a criminal who ignored our laws...
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Learn the law and some science, pleaseSep 16, 2007 11:00 pm - After reading the Sept. 5 letter by Lisa Szatkowski of Huntley, a forceful refutation of her thesis is in order. I'm not quite sure why she continues to advocate the tea...
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Leadership, not denial, needed in fight vs. gangsSep 15, 2007 11:00 pm - The city of Elgin knows how to fight gangs and violence. Or at least it used to. Winning takes neighborhood involvement and the full engagement of city hall, from the po...
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9/11 images must be shown oftenSep 15, 2007 11:00 pm - 9/11 images must be shown often Six years removed from the terrorist attacks, I expected that the feelings of pain, outrage and anger had been tempered by the passage of...
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Like others, Neale rides the cash cowSep 15, 2007 11:00 pm - It seems that School District U-46's educational messiah joined the list of other public servants to threaten themselves into huge benefits. Now Connie Neale also joins ...
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Being thoroughly pillaged leaves one short on sympathySep 15, 2007 11:00 pm - Lab reports, phone messages from doctors, long-term prognoses. None are among my favorite things. But I didn't make Superintendent Connie Neale's health my business. She...